It’s 1am…and I am attempting to study for a screening exam for a job opportunity tomorrow…and all week and all weekend, I should have been studying and I haven’t been able to concentrate at all. Every time I do, I start having an anxiety attack, and I just want out. So I try to calm down by listening to music, or calling someone, or posting here…
And here I am, wishing I had a time machine to go back to the beginning of the week and make myself focus better. (If I could pass the exam, then there would be the hope that MAYBE I will get the job and MAYBE I can turn things around…even though I know even if I get the job I’ll mess it up).
And then I think, well, if I had a time machine, I would go back MUCH further. At least back to undergrad in university, or possibly even high school, or heck, why not back to the moment I was born. And just do it all again. I feel like the damage is just too great at this point. There is just nothing to salvage from this shipwreck. I need a restart button. A mulligan. A do-over.
But I wonder…would I just make the same mistakes again? Or maybe I’d make different, but equally fatal ones?
If you had access to a time-machine…would you use it?
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I would discourage any use of time travel shenanigans. Think about it.
All of us, upon access to some sort of time travel device, would immediately travel to the past to “remedy” or just outright murder their stupid selves of the past.
However, likely the only version of us who will have access to time travel is our future selves.
Guess who we are in relation to our future selves? We are the past.
I’m just saying I’d so be dead by now or at least socked in the face by future me who’s going to absolutely be pissed by present me’s existence.
yes. I would. I hope the exam goes well and you get the job.
Thanks!
Hell yeah. I’d go back to 1987.
Why ’87? To revisit a good time or remedy a bad one?
No. Once was enough.
But it would be nice to see my family, alive and healthy. An “Our Town” kinda moment.